In silent Commemoration

We dedicate today's news to a special person, one of the founding fathers and spokespersons of our Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group.

Prof. Wolfgang Donsbach passed away nine years ago today. Much too early and very surprising for all of us, as he had just turned 65 and was far from retiring. We had started the second Boysen-TUD-Research Training Group on July 1, 2015, and we will never forget the moment when we learned of this loss.

"Wolf" was an energetic and cheerful person who had very high expectations of himself and others, who always had far too much to do - and yet he still had so much planned. He played soccer as regularly as he loved it. During his funeral speech on 14.08.2015, a friend said: "In soccer, you didn't know whether it was better that Wolf played against you or with you".

We in the Research Training Group look back on the years we spent together from mid-2011 to July 2015. These are very successful pioneering times that connect us with Wolf; memories of jour fixe appointments, planning meetings, colloquia, crises, highlights ... and a planned motorcycle tour that could no longer take place. The images that still linger in our minds are of him almost "flying in" around the door frame with a broad smile on his lips every Wednesday morning at the Jour Fixe - the motorcycle parked down on Strehlener Straße - and greeting everyone warmly.

With Wolf, we have lost a person far too soon who gave our Research Training Group a face, who as a communication scientist contributed his perspective, especially in the discussions with the engineering spokesperson Antonio Hurtado, and who wished that the often more pragmatic approaches of the engineers would be subjected to "sound research".

Dear Wolf, we miss you much, much more often than you think. You will stay with us.